A Settlement on Expensive West Virginia Divorce Bill
Back in early October, Total Divorce detailed a seemingly-finished West Virginia divorce that had been revived by a very expensive divorce bill. More specifically, Beckley resident Georganne Landis had turned to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court ruling which found that her ex-husband, orthopedic surgeon A.E. Landis, did not have to foot her $333,442.86 divorce bill. With that in mind, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has decided that Dr. and Ms. Landis should, out of fairness, split the divorce bill in half after both sides had argued that they shouldn’t have to pay it.
In part of its ruling, the Justices for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that Dr. Landis continues to earn a substantial income and is in a better position to absorb some of the divorce bill as compared to his wife absorbing it all. The Landis’ amazingly began their divorce proceedings back in 1999 and obtained their divorce decree in 2002. However, the couple came to a settlement on their wealth in 2005.
